- Valve has launched a brand new Personal Calendar for Steam customers through its Steam Labs experiment
- It permits customers to view lately launched and upcoming video games simply, based mostly on recreation exercise and wishlists
- It’s one other replace that would show helpful for the Steam shopper’s high quality of life
Valve is making life simpler for Steam shopper and SteamOS customers, with updates to enhance high quality of life throughout the board, and its newest one may find yourself being its most helpful but for players.
Announced on its group web page, Valve has launched a brand new ‘Personal Calendar‘ function that enables players to simply view each lately launched and upcoming video games, together with wishlist titles and really useful video games based mostly on playtime.
It additionally options each weekly and month-to-month views (for latest releases), with suggestions ‘re-trained’ each day to maintain them contemporary and nicely aligned with consumer exercise.
This ought to go a great distance in direction of saving customers’ time by preserving them updated on when wishlisted titles launch or enter early entry, and by eliminating the necessity to manually seek for new titles, because it’s all prepared and introduced on this new calendar. It’s one other replace from Valve that many, together with myself, might not have recognized we needed, however possible want.
With customization controls, customers can alter what number of video games are proven (as much as 500), filter by tags for particular recreation genres, disguise owned video games, and present solely wishlist titles.
It’s a really intuitive function that Valve intends to broaden through suggestions as part of its Steam Labs experiments, which appears to be one of many solely two methods to entry the calendar – however it will not be a shock to see this pop up in recreation libraries or within the Steam navigation bar, if it turns into a full function.
Based on what I’ve seen from my very own calendar, it is evident to me that Valve’s first rendition of this works very nicely, contemplating the quite a few quantity of roguelite and motion video games in my library. There’s a ton of titles launching in direction of the top of 2025 and early 2026, so it is secure to say that Valve selected the perfect time to push this replace to customers.
This arrives at a time when Microsoft’s ‘full-screen expertise’ mode is offered through the ROG Xbox Ally X handheld gaming PC, which makes use of the Xbox app as each a storefront and launcher; updates and experiments as such from Valve, put the onus on Microsoft and Xbox (and different PC recreation launchers) to behave, and introduce extra options to problem the Steam launcher.
As it stands, Valve continues to show why its storefront is the preferred for PC players, and lengthy might it proceed for the advantage of players.